Pinay Is Among Top 43 Female Engineers In The US!

To mark National Engineers Week (February 19 to 25), Business Insider has come up with a list of the 43 most powerful women engineers in US companies.

In the intro to the list, Business Insider's Julie Bort wrote: "Yes, the tech industry is doing a well-documented terrible job in attracting women into engineering. And once they enter this male-dominated world, some women are subject to some appalling sexism and sexual harassment."

However, Bort went on to point out, "But that tells only part of the story. There are women who are leading important tech teams at important companies. And there are women who are building cool cutting-edge technologies at startups."

Filipina Anne Aaron, who is the director of Video Algorithms at Netflix, is No. 32 on the list. A graduate of Bachelor of Science in Physics (1998) and Computer Engineering (1999) from the Ateneo de Manila University, Aaron went on to get her master's degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

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In a Facebook post, Aaron thanked those who congratulated her for being part of the list. She said, "I know that I've had a lot of opportunities come my way. [I'm] grateful, [and I'm] hoping that someday more Filipinos will have the same opportunities to thrive."

Below is the full list of the 43 top women engineers in the US for 2017.